ok either I don't understand the post or Jacob doesnt. You are planning to switch the stock LCD on the DVI model with the one on the VGA model right? If that is the case, then I think you should be fine. The screen connector shouldn't have changed. I'd say the easy way would be to take apart the screen and just look at the connector/.

Good news: The LCD doesn't use a connector anything at all like VGA or DVI to connect to the mobo. Badnews: There's a slight chance that this cable and signalling spec will be the same, but I would doubt it.

Wegener lists the LCD's with different product numbers, so I would think that they are /not/ compatible and that you'd have to do some pretty kick-ass reverse engineering to build a signal converter. The panel might not even fit size-wise into the shell.

LCDs often have entirely different connectors on them from model to model. The graphics chips used to drive them in laptops are often redesigned in order to drive a particular batch of panels. We have a host of panels in our workshop, including 3 TiBooks and a 17" G4 iMac panel which we wanted to turn into a standalone VGA or DVI monitor. Its considerably easier said than done sadly.

LCDs often have entirely different connectors on them from model to model. The graphics chips used to drive them in laptops are often redesigned in order to drive a particular batch of panels. We have a host of panels in our workshop, including 3 TiBooks and a 17" G4 iMac panel which we wanted to turn into a standalone VGA or DVI monitor. Its considerably easier said than done sadly.

I would say that the panel will either work outright or not at all, since it seemed to work you should be good to go. Using an old laptop LCD as an external display is known as "The Holy Grail" of hacks i.e. often talked about, never seen. The Video controller circuits are built into the motherboard. Using the screen without them would require engineering a controller board from scratch.

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